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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 4 (April 1997) table of contents

Pages: 44 - 54

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ron Baecker	Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Media Design Institute, The University of Toronto
Chris DiGiano	University of Colorado, Boulder
Aaron Marcus	Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Emeryville, Calif.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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